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All that hard this tydynges, 211
Theye
worshippyd
Iesu, hewyn kyng.
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Anon her herte gan to erme; 80
And for that hir
thoughte
evermo
Hit was not wel [he dwelte] so,
She longed so after the king
That certes, hit were a pitous thing
To telle hir hertely sorwful lyf 85
That hadde, alas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Was it not enough, Stars, to have given me
This
marriage?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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From
trellised
balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a splendour voluminous.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Infanta
The sacred bond twixt
Rodrigue
and Chimene
Will quench the hatred between warring flames;
And we shall swiftly see your love the stronger:
Through a happy marriage, stifling all anger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Within six weeks of the battle, it was a disgusting and horrible
sight; mangled bodies,
mutilated
limbs, rotting carcasses of men and
horses, the ground foul with clotted blood.
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Tacitus |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[e] We find in the Annals and the History of Tacitus, a number of
instances to justify the
sentiments
of Maternus.
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Tacitus |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Taking
advantage
of their
scare, I put spurs to my horse, and dashed off at full gallop.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The most
interesting
object in Canada to me was the River St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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þūhte him eall tō rūm, wongas and
wīc-stede (_fields and
dwelling
seemed to him all too broad_, i.
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Beowulf |
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But what ails the
creature?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"They should, by rights,
Give them a chance--because, you know,
The tastes of people differ so,
Especially
in Sprites.
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Lewis Carroll |
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XLII
The sixt had charge of them now being dead, 370
In seemely sort their corses to engrave,
And deck with dainty flowres their bridall bed,
That to their
heavenly
spouse both sweet and brave
They might appeare, when he their soules shall save.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Nice,
Whose
associates
were usually Geese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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590
But now a secret regret
agitates
my mind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She then applies herself to the god of sleep, and, with some
difficulty, persuades him to seal the eyes of Jupiter: this done, she goes
to mount Ida, where the god, at first sight, is
ravished
with her beauty,
sinks in her embraces, and is laid asleep.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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245
His eyen two, for pitee of his herte,
Out
stremeden
as swifte welles tweye;
The heighe sobbes of his sorwes smerte
His speche him refte, unnethes mighte he seye,
`O deeth, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mysteriously glowing through a background dim
When he was
suffering
she came to him,
And all the heavy pain within his heart
Rose in his hands and stole into his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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ARIEL:
Gab die
liebende
Natur,
Gab der Geist euch Flugel,
Folget meiner leichten Spur,
Auf zum Rosenhugel!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For to the limit of each land, each sea,
I roamed, obedient to Apollo's hest,
And come at last, O Goddess, to thy fane,
And
clinging
to thine image, bide my doom.
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Aeschylus |
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XXXVI
So raging, to the pigmy dwarf who bore
The news,
exclaimed
the king, "Now hence away!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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If I have erred, he can (in a
favourite
phrase of Donne's)
'control' me.
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John Donne |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Li Po |
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Hear me, sweet
dreamer!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
An' knows thet freedom ain't a gift
Thet tarries long in han's o'
cowards!
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James Russell Lowell |
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The forms which peopled this terrific trance
I well remember--like a choir of devils,
Around me they involved a giddy dance;
Legions seemed gathering from the misty levels
Of Ocean, to supply those ceaseless revels, _1310
Foul, ceaseless shadows:--thought could not divide
The actual world from these entangling evils,
Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried
All shapes like mine own self,
hideously
multiplied.
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Shelley |
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All tongues, all carrols dyd unto hym synge,
Wondryng
at one soe wyse, and yet soe yinge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Full Project
Gutenberg
License
_Please read this before you distribute or use this work.
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Stephen Crane |
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He had long been
desirous
that these Poems should be printed;
and therefore readily undertook the charge of superintending the
edition.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The green talons grasp
The land, that stood
erewhile
the proof so long,
And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The first course was announced with
cracking
of trumpets, with the
noise of nakers and noble pipes.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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' 1115
With that they wenten arm in arm y-fere
In-to the gardin from the
chaumbre
doun.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY"
Secure those golden early joys,
That youth
unsoured
with sorrow bears,
Ere withering time the taste destroys
With sickness and unwieldy years.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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We require an
infusion
of hemlock spruce or arbor-vitae
in our tea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In Anna's wars, a soldier poor and old
Had dearly earned a little purse of gold;
Tired with a tedious march, one
luckless
night,
He slept, poor dog!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Cor di mortal non fu mai si digesto
a divozione e a
rendersi
a Dio
con tutto 'l suo gradir cotanto presto,
come a quelle parole mi fec' io;
e si tutto 'l mio amore in lui si mise,
che Beatrice eclisso ne l'oblio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Events that are not begotten in joy
are
misbegotten
and darken the world, and nothing is begotten in joy if
the joy of a thousand years has not been crushed into a moment.
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Yeats |
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For he was after
traytour
to the toun
Of Troye; allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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with reinless speed
A black
Tartarian
horse of giant frame
Comes trampling over the dead, the living bleed _2500
Beneath the hoofs of that tremendous steed,
On which, like to an Angel, robed in white,
Sate one waving a sword;--the hosts recede
And fly, as through their ranks with awful might,
Sweeps in the shadow of eve that Phantom swift and bright; _2505
20.
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Shelley |
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_ Ovid xi; Ariosto,
_Orlando
Furioso_, Canto
xiv; Spenser, _Faerie Queene_, I.
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John Donne |
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Clarence
and the Malmesey over again;
'Twas a delightful death.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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He
afterwards
married successively Miss Lin, Miss Lu, and Miss Sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Such havock, howling all abroad,
Their utter ruin bring,
The base
apostates
to their God,
Or rebels to their King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Wait till in
everlasting
robes
This democrat is dressed,
Then prate about "preferment"
And "station" and the rest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Of Doctor
Ponnonner
nothing better was to be expected.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Whatever presents Constance might receive,
Still pensive sighs her breast
appeared
to heave:
Her tints of beauty too, began to fail,
And o'er the rose, the lily to prevail.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I
announce
a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
And I announce an old age that shall lightly and joyfully meet its
translation.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The
absolutions
granted by the clergy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Scattered
over the valley are to be found eleven stones, with
this inscription, 1388, the year the battle was fought, marking out as I
was told upon the spot, the several places where the Austrians
attempting to make a stand were repulsed anew.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The army thus in sacred rites engaged,
Atrides still with deep
resentment
raged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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One of my
sweetest
hope makes an end,
The other robs me of her hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Ne
þynceð
mē gerysne, þæt wē rondas beren
2655 "eft tō earde, nemne wē ǣror mǣgen
"fāne gefyllan, feorh ealgian
"Wedra þīodnes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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XVI
But
wherefore
do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For Juno, headstrong and
imperious
still,
She claims some title to transgress our will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The
insertion
of this pastoral
landscape, between the terrific scenes which precede and follow, has a
fine effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that
brightness
doth not grace the day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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[Burns took farewell of the
hospitalities
of the Scottish Highlands in
these happy lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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at clerkes
schullen
fordo ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And at midnight,
As she lay upon her bed,
She heard a voice
Call to her from the garden,
And, looking forth from her window,
She saw a
beautiful
youth
Standing among the flowers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
In the former, Sir Hugh
Montgomery
is shot through the heart by a
Northumbrian bowman; in the latter he is taken and exchanged for
the Percy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What, and wherein it doth exist,
This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist,
This
beautiful
and beauty-making power.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Also the blossoms on grapevines are wanting in shape and in color,
Although
the fruit when it's ripe pleases both mankind and gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
_
I dreamed in a dream I saw a city
invincible
to the attacks of the whole of
the rest of the earth;
I dreamed that it was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
He was confined at the hospital at Oboukov,
where he spoke to no one, but kept
constantly
murmuring in a monotonous
tone: "The tray, seven, ace!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But Zeus held the race of mortal men in
scorn, and was fain to destroy them from the face of the earth; yet
Prometheus loved them, and gave
secretly
to them the gift of fire,
and arts whereby they could prosper upon the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Finally, Jonson would hardly have attacked a
man who stood so high at court as did
Mompesson
in 1616.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Behold these sickning Spheres {The Man is erased from the 1st
rendition
and Albion is set in its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Perchance one heard, faint in the plain beneath,
The kiss suppressed, the
mingling
of the breath;
And the two sister cities, tired of heat,
In love's embrace lay down in murmurs sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
40
[9]
Stern
Lawgiver!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Song of Roland, by Anonymous
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Let me count the ways
XLIV Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
I
I thought once how
Theocritus
had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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ay for charyte
cherysen
a gest,
2056 & halden honour in her honde, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
'
But forth she moot, for ought that may bityde,
And forth she rit ful
sorwfully
a pas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end;
But who can with fate and quart-bumpers
contend?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Sounds Aeolian
Breath'd from the hinges, as the ample span
Of the wide doors disclos'd a place unknown
Some time to any, but those two alone,
And a few Persian mutes, who that same year
Were seen about the markets: none knew where
They could inhabit; the most curious
Were foil'd, who watch'd to trace them to their house:
And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth's sake, what woe
afterwards
befel,
'Twould humour many a heart to leave them thus,
Shut from the busy world of more incredulous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Keats - Lamia |
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As if impelled by powers invisible
And irresistible, my steps return
Unto this
spacious
hall.
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Longfellow |
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Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Nor leafy spray
Nor songs of birds, nor flowers gay
Please me today
My Lady, nay,
Lest there's a fine message I pray
From your loveliness, to relay
The
pleasures
new love and joy may
Display
And I'll play
For you, true lady, I say,
And lay
By the way
The jealous ones, ere I go away.
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Troubador Verse |
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'Faith here's an English
Taylor come hither, for
stealing
out of a French Hose:
Come in Taylor, here you may rost your Goose.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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<>,
rispuose
'l mio maestro a lui, <
ne disse: "Andate la: quivi e la porta">>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two
prefectures
in the east, deep in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A pair of
spectacles
ajar just stir --
An almanac's aware.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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, _S_, dated 1620,
which gives us a
downward
date; and in 1610 occurs what looks very
like an allusion to Donne's poem in Ben Jonson's _Silent Woman_.
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John Donne |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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